Yearender: U.S.-China subnational ties robust in 2019 despite crosscurrents

A lion dance performance is staged during the 2019 Beijing Day Cultural Festival at the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington D.C., the United States, on Nov. 22, 2019. In 2019, while the bilateral relationship between China and the United States is going through some rough patches at the national level, wide-ranging exchanges and cooperation at the subnational level have not been losing steam. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)